“We want Italy to be at the center of changing what is not working in Europe.” This Sunday, April 28, during a congress of her far-right party in the city of Pescara, the head of the Italian government, Giorgia Meloni, formalized her candidacy for the European elections in June.
Thus, she takes the head of the Fratelli d’Italia list with one ambition: that of “creating a majority which brings together the center-right forces and finally sending the left into the European opposition”, in her own words reported by Euronews. “In short, we want to do in Europe what we did in Italy on September 25” – 2022, the date his party obtained the majority, both in the Italian Chamber of Deputies and Senate.
“If she obtains a good result, Giorgia Meloni, who will obviously not sit in the European Parliament, will have even more basis to be able to influence the orientations of the policy of the European Union. She wants to assert herself as one of the great national-populist leaders”, notes Marc Lazar, historian and sociologist specializing in Italian politics, with RFI.
27% of voting intentions
His party, Fratelli d’Italia, had until now six MEPs and sat with the group of European Conservatives and Reformists, which also includes representatives of the Polish Law and Justice party (PiS), the Spanish nationalists of the Vox party. as well as the French MEP, Nicolas Bay, member of the Reconquête party.
According to a recent Ipsos survey for EuronewsGiorgia Meloni’s party could come in first position and obtain up to 24 seats in the next elections in June, with 27% of the vote – seven points ahead of the Democratic Party, the Italian center-left party.